Neuro-Inclusion & Positive Leadership

Austin Distel @austindistel
Positive energizers are uplifting, trustworthy, and help others flourish. They create and sustain vitality in others.
— Kim Cameron, "Positively Energizing Leadership" (2021)

High-performance and social impact through neuro-inclusive culture.


I help organizations build calm, creative, and effective teams—combining energizing leadership (Kim Cameron), Job Crafting, and clear team rituals.

I translate practice and evidence into reliable performance — especially for ADHD talent. I build harmonious, neuro-inclusive cultures and create energizing environments where people thrive and teams deliver with engagement, excellence, and innovation.

I combine Positive Leadership, strengths-based development, embodiment methods, and structured creativity processes—turning ideas into prototypes and market-ready solutions, while employee retention rises and execution speeds up.

Neuro-Inclusion Consulting

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Services

Energizing Leadership

Positive/health-oriented leadership that creates relational energy, clarity, and psychological safety.

  • Neurodiversity & Accessibility

  • Positive Leadership (Kim Cameron)

  • Change Enablement

  • OKR (light)

  • Service Design

  • Workshop/Process Facilitation

Job Crafting & Role Fit

Strength-based redesign of tasks and agreements for reliable focus and output.

  • Job Crafting

  • People Development & Coaching

  • L&D Program Design

  • Health-oriented Leadership

Clear, Calm Communication

Working Agreements, meeting hygiene, quiet hours — less friction, more delivery.

  • Working Agreements

  • Psychological Safety

  • Focus Environments

  • Assistive Tech Basics

  • Recruiting/Onboarding Adaptation

Carla Sophie Tiemann

Carla Sophie Tiemann

Creator of a Neuro-Inclusive Culture.
Founder turned advisor.

I help organizations build reliable high-performance through neuro-inclusive culture. So that people thrive and teams deliver with focus, quality, and creativity, my approach blends:

  • Health-oriented Leadership & Positive (energizing) Leadership (Cameron)

  • Job Crafting

  • Clear, calm team rituals.

Selected certifications:

  • Positive Psychology Consultant (focus: Positive Leadership, Parenting, Embodiment)

  • ACT for ADHD (Dr. Russ Harris)

  • Parent Counseling for ADD/ADHD

  • Ego States (intro)

  • Systemic Transactional Analysis (intro)

  • Resilience training

Degrees:

  • M.Sc. Social Entrepreneurship & Management, Roskilde University (2015)

  • B.A. European Studies, Maastricht University (2012)

Teaching:

  • 2–6 day seminars and leader micro-trainings — including Neurodiversity in Teams, Holistic Resilience Training, and Body-Oriented Coaching Methods (e.g., SOCIAL ACADEMY Hamburg).

  • Somatic Yoga & Vagus Nerve Training (incl. KAIFU LODGE, Hamburg)

  • Registered as a Yoga Teacher Trainer with the Yoga Alliance

Based in Hamburg, working on-site or remote.

ready to pilot neuro-inclusive practices with measurable outcomes?
  • Coaching


    - Certified Consultant in Positive Psychology with focus on Positive Leadership in Business, Positive Parenting & Education, and Positive Embodiment, Inntal Institut (2024)
    - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for ADHD, Dr. Russ Harris (2025)
    - Certified Parent Counselor for ADD/ADHD, Institut für Integrative Lerntherapie und Weiterbildung (2025)
    - Leader in Active Parenting of Teens, Dr. Michael Popkin (2025)
    - Introduction to Ego States Therapy, Hamburg Institute for Trauma Therapy (2024)
    - Introductory Course in Systemic Transactional Analysis, Kessel & Kessel (2023)
    - Certified Specialist Advisor for High Sensitivity (HSP), BIEK (2022)
    - Certified “Resilience Trainer in Nature”, German Academy for Forest Bathing & Health (2022)


    Mindfulness, Yoga & Meditation


    - Meditation Teacher Training (2016)
    - 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (2016)
    - 300h+ Advanced Trainings in Yoga Therapy for Trauma & Eating Disorders, Yin Yoga, and Inclusive/Trauma-sensitive Mindfulness (since 2016)

  • Roskilde University — M.Sc. in Social Entrepreneurship & Management

    February 2013 – September 2015

    Overall grade: Excellent
    Curriculum: Social entrepreneurship & social business, sustainability & strategy management, CSR, work & organizational psychology, organizational development, social & environmental innovation, academic research & writing, marketing.

    Exchange semester: University of Hamburg, Sep–Dec 2014.

    Internship (4 months): Berlin — Men’s Health Foundation (Stiftung Männergesundheit): fundraising, academic research, strategy & operational management.

    Additional training: “Primary Leadership and Emotional Intelligence in Leadership,” Case Western Reserve University.

    Maastricht University — B.A. in European Studies

    July 2009 – June 2012

    Overall grade: Very good
    Curriculum: EU politics with modules in European history, law, culture, development cooperation, political science, economics, philosophy, sociology, negotiation skills, and academic research & writing.

    Exchange semester: Institut d’Études Politiques de Rennes (France), Sep–Dec 2011.

    Activities:

    • 7-month active member of the United Nations Student Association: fundraising for local projects in developing countries; organizing seminars/lectures; arranging overseas internships for Maastricht students.

    • 6-month volunteer at MISEREOR (Aachen), focusing on fundraising.

    • 4-week internship at ZDF (Mainz): journalism and media production in society & politics.

  • Founder & CEO · CRYSTAL SOUL®

    Founder of a circular Alpine crystal label. Owned the end-to-end value chain — from raw-stone sourcing and design/production in South Tyrol to e-commerce, wholesale, events & workshops — with verifiably ethical origins(stones collected by local mountaineers rather than mined) and transparent supply chains.

    Press: Grazia, Herzstück, Fuck Lucky Go Happy

    Skills:
    Alpine sourcing (non-mined), supply-chain build-out (Italy/DACH), product & quality, e-commerce & growth, B2B & trade fairs, workshops & community, circularity/ESG, P&L & operations




    Co-Founder / Venture Lead · ZALDIA®

    Built a brand for premium, sustainable equestrian apparel; led material and product development as well as go-to-market preparation. The venture was concluded after two years once core material performance criteria could not be consistently met.

    Skills:
    venture building, supplier management, ESG/circularity, product/material development, service/brand design, experimentation & prototyping logic

Trainings & courseS

Yoga

  • “Good Morning Yoga” freitags um 7h @ Kaifu Lodge Hamburg

  • Vagus Nerve Trainings

  • Corporate offsites to support calm focus, interoception, and recovery.

  • Teacher Trainings (Registered with Yoga Alliance).

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Neurodiversity in Teams

What you get:

A practical framework to make ADHD & Autism-friendly work the norm—without adding friction. We combine energizing leadership, Job Crafting, and Working Agreements (clear language, meeting hygiene, quiet hours).
Outcomes. Higher psychological safety & engagement, less meeting load, better handovers, faster time-to-productivity.

For whom: Team leads & HR/L&D; cross-functional teams (product, research, operations).

Format: 2 days (or 4×½-day); on-site or live online; optional KPI snapshot before/after.

Holistic Resilience Training

What you get:

Evidence-informed practices for calm focus: somatic self-regulation (polyvagal-informed), micro-breaks & breathwork, attention design, sleep & energy basics, and team rituals that stick.

Outcomes. Better focus and recovery, clearer communication under pressure, fewer avoidable conflicts.

For whom: Whole teams & leadership cohorts.

Format: 2–6 days; playbook included

Training Dates for Hamburg
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